"As day one of the annual Pwn2Own hacker contest wound down on Wednesday, no browser suffered more abuse than Google Chrome, which was felled by an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in the most up-to-date version. Combined with a separate contest Google sponsored a few feet away, it was the second zero-day attack visited on Chrome in a span of a few hours." Google fixed the issue within 24 hours.

Developers can make terrible decisions and assumptions when they write code. And often management doesn't help.

My first job was like beating my head against the wall, with a boss that kept directing me to do stupid things with the software out of paranoia of pirating. Keep in mind the software was never actually sold to anyone, ever. But we pretended to sell it in order for sales guys to use it as a baraning chip when selling some of our hardware. Really, anyone could call up our support and get it shipped free of charge to them, no questions asked. But, we had to put crazy half baked ant theft stuff in there to reinforce the "deal" the customers were getting. It being half baked usually just killed the customers data at a whim, due to a crazy assumption that was built in to the requirements.